Thank you! I was the character/bust artist for this game and I agree, this game was NOT horror enough. I tried to add more horror elements from black & white films [The Invisible Man movies for example]. I did want a more conventional RPGMaker horror game but during development in this Game Jam, the sprite artist had a lot of IRL issues showing up. This definitely explained why we went a visual novel route instead. I DO hope to remake this game to make it more like a horror game like Mermaid Swamp.
I love that you appreciate Gustav as a cartoon villain. He was my perfect victim for using the Cursed Ring because of it. Making him the monster using that ring was fun for me and he was why I wanted to use this idea for this Game Jam.